The US Embassy in Armenia has announced it is temporarily suspending some visa services due to the latest developments in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has chaired a consultation on January 8 to discuss “the ongoing developments in the region” and the implementation process of the instructions he had issued to governmental authorities on this occasion back on Friday.
Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs has offered condolences to the families and friends of the 176 victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Tehran-Kiev flight that crashed after takeoff today in the Iranian capital.
80 people were killed in Iran’s missile attack on US bases in Iraq, Reuters reported citing Iranian state TV.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described Iran’s missile attack to the US base in Iraq as a “proportionate measure” which came “in self-defense”, IRNA reports.
Speaker of the House of Representatives of US Nancy Pelosi has said that she is monitoring the developments around Iran’s missile strikes at US bases in Iraq.
A Boeing 737 plane operated by Ukraine International Airlines has crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran early Wednesday local time, Iranian media reported.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province in western Iraq on Wednesday in response to the US assassination of the IRGC’s Quds Forces, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.
The Trump Administration has begun drafting sanctions against Iraq after the US President publicly threatened the country with economic penalties if it proceeded to expel U.S. troops, the Washington Post reported citing three people briefed on the planning.
Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander General Khalifa Haftar has warned that his forces will mobilize to repel any foreign soldiers sent to Libya, after Turkey approved a troop deployment to assist the rival government in Tripoli, RT reports.
